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Another major issue is the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests, which Turkel calls "tremendously problematic." She suggests that instead of graduation hinging on a standardized test, students should be judged on a portfolio of work assembled by their teachers...
...school is too young for test scores to mean much. Currently, the school only has MCAS results from 30 fourth graders...
Miller points to the state's new standardized testing system, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), as one factor that leads parents to favor private schools...
Under Cellucci's plan, schools would be evaluated through aggregate score from their students annual standardized MCAS tests and their annual improvement. The grades won't be B pluses or C minuses, but simple terms like "good," "excellent" and "poor...
Some educational advocates are fuming that schools will be evaluated on a test as new as the MCAS (it was first given in 1998), but Cellucci is happy to take them...